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Zeigeist
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since 2009-12-09
Posts 311
Michigan

0 posted 2010-03-18 09:25 PM


Expiration

I have so little to offer anymore.
I try to keep up but I’m afraid
I just don’t understand it all.
Somewhere along the line
I became old.
I am out of date, past my prime.

So much time spent alone.
So many meals served for one.
I know the world spins under my feet
but somehow I have fallen behind.

I blow the dandruff off my glasses,
and look down at these old hands
writing this poem.

I wonder if they
will ever hold someone again.

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Robert E. Jordan
Member Rara Avis
since 2008-01-25
Posts 8541
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1 posted 2010-03-18 10:49 PM


Yo Zeigeist,

Don't carry on like that.  Look in a mirror and smile.  Show your teeth, even if they're like mine--not real.

Bobby

Zeigeist
Member
since 2009-12-09
Posts 311
Michigan
2 posted 2010-03-18 10:50 PM


lol, I hear ya Bobby, I hear ya.

Zeitgeist

threadbear
Senior Member
since 2008-07-10
Posts 817
Indy
3 posted 2010-03-19 12:13 PM


ah, the great things about 'expiration' dates:

They're usually RENEWABLE!
Drive 'em till the wheels fall off, Z!
Jeff

Zeigeist
Member
since 2009-12-09
Posts 311
Michigan
4 posted 2010-03-19 02:04 PM


Down to the rims Jeff! thanks for the reply.

Z.

Honeybee
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since 1999-12-26
Posts 5372
Ontario, CANADA
5 posted 2010-03-19 09:34 PM


powerfully expressed....the end packs a punch...and sadly I relate to your words right now....
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